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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is the youngest member of the greasers
Who is Ponyboy?
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The reason Darry never when to college
What is - he stayed home, and got a job to support Soda and Ponyboy?
100
This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents
What is passed away in a car crash?
100
This is what Mr. Syme talks to Ponyboy about
What is his failing grade?
100
The reason for the conflict throughout the book between the Socs and the greasers.
What is Social Class (those with power & money and those without)
100
This is "the fuzz"
What is the police?
100
This is how Ponyboy responds when Randy says he wouldn't have saved the kids.
What is - "You might have. Its the individual. It doesn't matter if you're a Soc or a greaser.
100
The kind of building Johnny and Ponyboy hide out in
What is a church?
100
This is the point-of-view used to tell the story (first, second, third)
What is first person?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out
What is Gone With the Wind?
200
This is the wisecracker of the bunch
Who is Two-Bit?
200
This greaser thinks of Ponyboy as a "tagalong"
Who is Steve Randle?
200
This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park
What is -Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) were jealous?
200
Cherry says this before she leaves Ponyboy and it shocks him.
What is - "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."
200
Johnny thinks Dally has never really seen this
What is -a sunset?
200
This is what "like it or lump it" means
What is - just accept things the way they are because they will never change.
200
This is the reason Johnny doesn't ask any questions when Ponyboys tell him they are going to run away
What is - Johnny had been waiting to run away his whole life?
200
This is the name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to
What is Windrixville?
200
The author of The Outsiders is this
Who is S.E Hinton?
200
This is what Ponyboy and Johnny eat at the church
What is baloney?
300
This is the toughest guy in the greaser gang
Who is Dally?
300
This man was supposedly too big to fit through the window of the church
Who is Jerry Wood?
300
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him.
What is his leather jacket?
300
The last words Johnny said to Ponyboy before he died
What are, "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. . . "? (pg 148).
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life
What is -feeling unwanted and unloved by parents
300
Use "heater" like a greaser would in a sentence
Answers will vary
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Ponyboy realizes that he and his brothers and friends shouldn't be a the rumble for this reason.
What is - they could all become future convicts with no hope?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in Windrixville
What is Jay Mountain?
300
This is the decade when The Outsiders takes place
When was the 1960s?
300
Name one of the period(1960s) cars in the book.
What are Sting Ray, red Corvair, and a blue Mustang?
400
This is who Ponyboy looks at in Soda's old yearbook
Who is Bob Sheldon?
400
This is Cherry's last name
What is Valance?
400
This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy
What is she moved to Florida to live with her grandparents?
400
Ponyboy was worried about _________ when he woke up from his concussion. (he had been delirious)
What is - not asking for Darry as much as Soda when he was delirious and saying things.
400
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing
What is despite their social class, the Socs have it rough too?
Cherry states "things are rough all over."
400
This is what "merrily" means
With energy; joyfully; happily
400
Ponyboy feels sorry for Dally when Johnny asks if his parents missed him. The reason for this is...
What is - Dally tried to be Johnny's "family" in their place, but Johnny would never be as close to him as he was to his parents, even though they beat him.
400
This is where Sodapop works
What is at the local gas station (The DX)?
400
This is how many chapters there are in The Outsiders
What is 12?
400
This is Two-Bit's prized possession
What is a black-handled switchblade?
500
The sport Dally participated in. The only thing he was honest about.
What is horseracing? (or being a jockey)
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is the celebrity that the Greasers idolize.
Who is Paul Newman?
500
The two things that cause Soda the most pain in the book.
(not any of the deaths or Ponyboy's concussion or burn)
What are Sandy moving away and returning his letters? AND Pony and Darry arguing and putting Soda in the middle.
500
Explain how Darry and Ponyboy's relationship changes
What is - they would fight a lot at the beginning of the book. Darry slaps Ponyboy. They get closer but still fight. Soda forces them to make peace.
500
What Cherry and Ponyboy say is the real difference between the Socs and Greasers
What is that Socs don't feel anything, and greasers feel too much?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is what "wistfully" means
What is dreamily, absentminded, longingly?
500
Foreshadowing is...
What is - a literary device in a book that is used to give a hint to the reader that something eventful is about to happen.
500
This is the city where the novel takes place
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The author's age when she wrote the novel
What is 16?
500
The Curtis boys like to eat this with their ham and eggs.
What is chocolate cake?
600
Dally and Johnny's relationship is like this
Johnny idolizes Dally. Johnny is the only person or thing Dally ever loved.
600
This is the name of Darry's former friend who threw the first punch during the rumble.
Who is Paul Holden?
600
Put these events in order:
Ponyboy gets jumped
Two-Bit gets jumped
The rumble
Johnny gets jumped
Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped while together
1. Johnny gets jumped
2. Ponyboy gets jumped
3. Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped while together
4. Two-Bit gets jumped
5. The rumble
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Put these events in order:
Johnny dies
Dally dies
Bob dies
Ponyboy faints
Ponyboy is kicked in the head
1. Bob dies
2. Ponyboy is kicked in the head
3. Johnny dies
4. Dally dies
5. Ponyboy faints
600
Johnny's thoughts regarding the meaning of the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
What is ". . you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day."
600
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant
What is a heroic gentleman; Dally
600
Ponyboy is a ______________ character, not a static one.
What is dynamic?
600
The house where Ponyboy and Johnny go immediately after Johnny kills Bob.
What is Buck Merrill's house?
600
These are the 5 Ps
What is-
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Poor
Performance
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is the kind of shirt fabric that Socs like to wear
What is madras?